Su Tong once wrote in the essay "The Secret of the River"-"What is the South", "People usually set an emotional stance for their memories before they recall, whether it is beautiful or sad, or calmly and objectively reproduce history, but I just chose a gesture of remembering that is almost as cold as the Avengers." A series of southern symbols, such as willows, streams and spring breeze, were replaced by cats, polluted rivers and blue light. "I grew up in the south, and the south is like a grass seed in the mouth of a flying goose. I can't control it myself, but I have long hated life in the south. This is permanent stain left by Toona Street. " "Even if I put on beautiful clothes, the bad habits in the south can't fool my eyes." Everything is disgusting. A series of images, such as "toilet", "fly", "hanging diapers" and "sanitary belt", which are unsightly and used to it, are isomorphic, and become the degenerate south criticized by Su Tong.

2. Image writing

Different from Borges and Faulkner in The Other Side, Su Tong uses image metaphor in his writing, pays more attention to story writing skills, and does not have much innovation in content. At the same time, the text itself consumes history in an almost playful way.

3. Subei World

Su Tong's southern complex basically belongs to northern Jiangsu, so I prefer to call it northern Jiangsu complex. The regional cultural connotations involved in natural works are different.

4. Juvenile writing

In Su Tong's works, there are a lot of views on the south from the perspective of childhood and adolescence.

These are just a few points I can make. In addition to reading Su Tong's novels and other writers' works describing Jiangnan, I suggest you read his essays and essays, which is very helpful to understand the writer's writing process or the imprint of his works in the real world, and you can know what kind of psychology he is writing in Jiangnan (why do you write like this? )-This is the key point, others are mostly analyzed from the form of works.

In the future, it is best not to ask such questions in Baidu, but directly ask the teacher, who is still very kind. When I first wrote my thesis, I also asked a question about Su Tong here, which was very chilling. However, it is impossible for others to tell you such academic things easily. Besides, there are not many academic people here.